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On 3/31/2013 9:15 AM, Eli Turkel wrote:
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<p dir="ltr">I was reading the introduction to the moriah SA over
pesach<br>
They claim that they fixed many misprints from previous editions that
affected halacha</p>
<p dir="ltr">Does that mean one should keep the mistakes because that
is the mesorah</p>
<p dir="ltr">BTW they mention the city in their discussion</p>
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Rabbis Shlomo Riskin and David Bar Hayim once had a debate at the
Israel Center in Jerusalem. During the course of this, R' Riskin
claimed that "lo tirtzach" applied to non-Jews. R' Bar Hayim said that
it didn't, but that "shofech dam adam b'adam damo yeshafech" did. R'
Riskin pulled out a copy of the Rambam and read: "Kol horeg nefesh adam
oveir b'lo taaseh, she-ne'emar, lo tirtzach." R' Bar Hayim pulled out
a copy of an edition of the Rambam based on actual manuscripts (as
opposed to the one R' Riskin had used, which was published under the
kindly auspices of the Polish Catholic Church), and read: "Kol horeg
nefesh adam <b>miYisrael </b>oveir b' lo taaseh, she-ne'emar, lo
tirtzach." R' Riskin's response was not to argue in favor of his
nusach being more correct, but rather to say, "This is the version we
have today."<br>
<br>
Would RMB agree with R' Riskin? Certainly, if we find the Aron under
Har HaBayit and see that the copy of the Sefer Torah that Moshe wrote
has differences from the one we have, we'd be obligated to make ours
conform to his. Or is that also something RMB would dispute?<br>
<br>
If we were to find a copy of a Sefer Torah in a cave, preserved like
the Dead Sea Scrolls, and that was different from ours, we would *not*
change ours, because who knows if that one wasn't ganuz for a reason.
Maybe it belonged to sectarians who changed it. But if we were to find
one in the actual Aron, that would present us with a fact, and we'd
have to accept it.<br>
<br>
Lisa<br>
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